We’re used to vampires who are both deadly and benign, the types of characters that we actually want sucking our blood. In the vampire novel, "Vampire Zero: A Gruesome Vampire Tale," David Wellington reminds us why we were really frightened of them in the first place.

Perhaps the most enduring of all characters in horror literature, the Vampire has held dominion over the genre for...well, centuries. Yet its presence in horror literature is small in comparison to the myths which have focused on the vampire for thousands of years.